The cost of college makes students across the country take out massive amounts of loans. President Biden recently enacted a plan to tackle student debt during the pandemic. Kids are often told to ‘reach for the stars’, but as people get older they soon realize that there are limitations to dreaming big. With the average...
The infamous letter, discovered by the forensics team, that has been the driving piece of evidence in the case. It’s that time of year again folks! The Criminal Justice/Law and Forensic classes are back at it again with their investigation. This year, it begins on the morning of March 1st, at 7:30 am. There was...
Bay Port is a very well funded school and has many resources available. However it seems to many that Bay Port puts more energy and money into the football team than in other sports. While the football team is certainly well deserved to be funded and is important to the school, there are other sports...
The cheerleaders performed at the start of the community circle as the Amani Public Charter School family celebrated the Scholars of the Month and the High Flyers. High Flyers get to go on trips for their accomplishments during the year they are good students. They have pizza parties and receive gifts from their teachers and...
Over the past few weeks, most Bellows Free Academy students and staff have become very familiar with PA system testing issues and lack of passing time bells making for an interesting assortment of sounds throughout the day. Another contributor has been the addition of alarms to all BFA doors, minus the connector. The Mercury spoke to...
Career day came into the spotlight at Amani Public Charter School students Jan. 29, as numerous employees and managers arrived in the building to talk about themselves and their jobs. A few Amani Universe reporters and student government members came together in the third floor conference room to meet Lindsey Davis from ABC News and...
“This team robot is one that would make anyone proud on the field that we’ve shown. They are on track for a bright future. Don’t lose your marbles, but the first place for the Innovate Award goes to team 6731, The Ringers, from St. Albans,” John Cohn (an American Engineer and Scientist who worked at IBM) at...
Three, two, one, go! Eighth grader Melissa Krainer will be traveling to Harrisburg, Pa. to compete in the state Mathcounts competition Saturday, March 19! Krainer placed third out of 33 competitors in the chapter competition three weeks ago. Mathcounts is for sixth, seventh and eighth graders interested in math. It is not for the faint...
In late January, eighth graders conversations were abuzz with questions: Are you ready or scared to go to high school? Did you pick out the classes you want to take? Did you get to take everything you wanted? At the end of each January, eighth grade students begin scheduling for ninth grade. This year, the...
The Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT, is now scheduled to take a turn to digital form by 2024. SATs have been around since 1926 and are used to determine what colleges students can get into. These tests are changing to online because they are said to be less stressful and more relevant to certain subjects....